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Order Of The Condor Of The Andes
The Order of the Condor of the Andes ( es, links=no, La Orden del Cóndor de los Andes) is a state decoration of the Plurinational State of Bolivia instituted on 12 April 1925. The Order is awarded for exceptional merit, either civil or military, shown by Bolivians or foreign nationals. There are six grades: Grand Collar, Grand Cross, Grand Officer, Commander, Officer, and Knight. Recipients Recipients of the Order include: * Konrad Adenauer, German chancellor * Xavier Albó Corrons, Jesuit priest, expert in the indigenous peoples of Bolivia * Hernán Terrazas Céspedes, Bolivian general and Mayor of Cochabamba * Josip Broz Tito, Yugoslavian politician * Carlos Calvo Calbimontes, Foreign Secretary of Bolivia * Pedro Castillo, President of Peru * Adolfo Costa du Rels, Bolivian author and diplomat * Jimmy Doolittle, USAF General, Doolittle Raid Leader * Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor * Pope Francis * Ernesto Galarza, Mexican-American activist * Clark Hewitt Galloway * Cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Government Of Bolivia
The politics of Bolivia takes place in a tree of a presidential representative democratic republic, whereby the president is head of state, head of government and head of a diverse multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the government. Legislative power is vested in both the government and the two chambers of parliament. Both the Judiciary and the electoral branch are independent of the executive and the legislature. After the 2015 election, 53.3% of the seats in national parliament were held by women, a higher proportion of women than that of the population. History The civil war between the Conservatives and the Liberals ended in 1912 with the latter's victory; a liberal era began that lasted until 1927. A system of public education developed, accompanied by moderate anticlericalism: Catholicism lost its status as the only religion recognized by the State in 1906 and civil marriage was adopted in 1969. Bolivian liberalism, however, is clearly losing its progres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy Doolittle
James Harold Doolittle (December 14, 1896 – September 27, 1993) was an American military general and aviation pioneer who received the Medal of Honor for his daring raid on Japan during World War II. He also made early coast-to-coast flights, record-breaking speed flights, won many flying races, and helped develop and flight-test instrument flying. Raised in Nome, Alaska, Doolittle studied as an undergraduate at University of California, Berkeley, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in 1922. He also earned a doctorate in aeronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1925, the first issued in the United States. In 1929, he pioneered the use of "blind flying", where a pilot relies on flight instruments alone, which later won him the Harmon Trophy and made all-weather airline operations practical. He was a flying instructor during World War I and a reserve officer in the United States Army Air Corps, but he was recalled to active duty during World War II. He was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Koča Popović
Konstantin "Koča" Popović ( sr-cyrl, Константин "Коча" Поповић; 14 March 1908 – 20 October 1992) was a Yugoslav politician and communist volunteer in the Spanish Civil War, 1937–1939 and Divisional Commander of the First Proletarian Division of the Yugoslav Partisans. He is on occasion referred to as "the man who saved the Yugoslav Partisans", because it was he who anticipated the weakest point in the Axis lines on the Zelengora–Kalinovik axis, and devised the plan for breaking through it during the Battle of Sutjeska, thus saving Tito, his headquarters and the rest of the resistance movement. After the war, he served as the Chief of the General Staff of the Yugoslav People's Army, before moving to the position of Foreign Minister and spent the final years of his political career as the Vice President of Yugoslavia. Despite being a member of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia, he was a supporter of free-market reforms and was also a member of a grou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prince Philip, Duke Of Edinburgh
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (born Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark, later Philip Mountbatten; 10 June 1921 – 9 April 2021) was the husband of Queen Elizabeth II. As such, he served as the consort of the British monarch from Elizabeth's accession as queen on 6 February 1952 until his death in 2021, making him the longest-serving royal consort in history. Philip was born in Greece, into the Greek and Danish royal families; his family was exiled from the country when he was eighteen months old. After being educated in France, Germany, and the United Kingdom, he joined the Royal Navy in 1939, when he was 18 years old. In July 1939, he began corresponding with the 13-year-old Princess Elizabeth, the elder daughter and heir presumptive of King George VI. Philip had first met her in 1934. During the Second World War, he served with distinction in the British Mediterranean and Pacific fleets. In the summer of 1946, the King granted Philip permission to marry El ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcelo Ostria Trigo
Marcelo Ostria Trigo (born February 23, 1935), is a Bolivian attorney, government official, diplomat, university professor, columnist and author. Early life and education Marcelo Ostria Trigo was born in Tarija, Bolivia, as the third child of a Bolivian pediatrician, Eduardo Ostria Gutiérrez (1898–1961) and of Matilde Trigo Pizarro (1902–1997). He studied law at the Universidad Autónoma Juan Misael Saracho and graduated as an attorney in 1960. Diplomacy Domestic Service He entered Bolivia's Foreign Service in 1966. Among his many positions, his most noteworthy domestic appointments included: Economic Adviser to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1969), Under Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1974–1976), Minister of Foreign Affairs ''ad interim'' (1975), Under-Secretary-General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1978), Adviser-General to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1993) and Foreign Policy Adviser to the President of Bolivia (2005). Under Secretary of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ileana Leonidoff
Ileana Leonidoff (3 March 1893 – 1 January 1968) is a pseudonym for Elena Sergeevna Pisarevskaya (russian: Елена Сергеевна Писаревская), a Russian-born emigrée who first made a career in Italy in silent films and then as a noted dancer and choreographer. She was the founder and lead dancer of the Dance School of Teatro dell'Opera di Roma. During World War II, she fled to South America, first teaching in Argentina and then in Ecuador in 1950. She was the first director of the Ballet Oficial de Bolivia, then served as the director of the Guayaquil Ballet in Ecuador, and became the founder of the Ballet School of Trujillo, Peru. She was honored as a knight of the Order of the Condor of the Andes in 1953. Early life Elena Sergeevna Pisarevskaya was born in 1893 in Sevastopol, a town on the Black Sea on the Crimean Peninsula during the Russian Imperial Period to Cleopatra Gavrilovna (née Sudkovskaya) and rear admiral Sergei Petrovic Pisarevsky. Her materna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlos Lampe
Carlos Emilio Lampe Porras (born March 17, 1987) is a Bolivian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Bolívar and the Bolivia national team. Club career During the 2010 season he was the first choice keeper for Universitario de Sucre, having played all six games in their journey through the 2010 version of the Copa Nissan Sudamericana, picking up the MVP award in a couple of matches. Lampe has also become a regular choice keeper for the Bolivian squad. After a number of years abroad with Huachipato (Chile) and a brief stint with Boca Juniors (Argentina), in 2020 Lampe returned to Bolivian club football with Always Ready, winning the 2020 División de Fútbol Profesional, the first title in the club's history. International career Lampe has been a Bolivian international since 2010, earning 49 caps. He has represented his country in FIFA World Cup qualification matches. Lampe played for Bolivia in the 2007 U-20 South American Championship held in Paraguay. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
President Of India
The president of India ( IAST: ) is the head of state of the Republic of India. The president is the nominal head of the executive, the first citizen of the country, as well as the commander-in-chief of the Indian Armed Forces. Droupadi Murmu is the 15th and current president, having taken office from 25 July 2022. The office of president was created when India officially became a republic on 26 January 1950 after gaining independence on 15th August 1947, when its constitution came into force. The president is indirectly elected by an electoral college comprising both houses of the Parliament of India and the legislative assemblies of each of India's states and territories, who themselves are all directly elected by the citizens. Article 53 of the Constitution of India states that the president can exercise their powers directly or by subordinate authority (with few exceptions), though all of the executive powers vested in the president are, in practice, exercised by t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ram Nath Kovind
Ram Nath Kovind (; born 1 October 1945) is an Indian politician who served as the 14th President of India from 2017 to 2022. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He is the second person after K. R. Narayanan, from the Dalit community to occupy the post. Prior to his presidency, he served as the 26th Governor of Bihar from 2015 to 2017 and as a Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha from 1994 to 2006. Before entering politics, he was a lawyer for 16 years and practiced in the Delhi High Court and the Supreme Court of India until 1993. Early life and education Ram Nath Kovind was born in the Koli family of Maiku Lal and Kalawati during the British Raj on 1 October 1945, in Paraunkh village in the Kanpur Dehat district of Uttar Pradesh, as the youngest of five brothers and two sisters. His father Maikulal ran a shop and was also a farmer and a local vaidya. His mother Kalawati was a homemaker. Kovind was born in a mud hut, which eventually collapsed. He was only five when ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Javier Del Granado
Don (honorific), Don Francisco Javier del Granado y Granado (27 February 1913 – 15 May 1996), was a poet laureate and favorite son of Bolivia. Biography Born into an aristocratic family with a rich literary pedigree, he spent most of his youth on his family's hacienda near Arani, Bolivia, Arani, in the department of Cochabamba, Colpa-Ciaco, a colonial-era estate in existence since the 16th century. A quiet life filled with the joys of living in the countryside greatly influenced his works, which combine epic imagery and storytelling with bucolic settings as well as rural and indigenous themes and the use, in addition to Spanish, of indigenous languages, primarily Quechua languages, Quechua (the language of the Incas). In its turn toward native subjects as well as in its use of a formal battery of traditional forms, such as the ballad and the sonnet, his extensive body of poetry has been compared with that of Mexico's preeminent man of letters Alfonso Reyes.Irwin, Amanda L., '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles De Gaulle
Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (; ; (commonly abbreviated as CDG) 22 November 18909 November 1970) was a French army officer and statesman who led Free France against Nazi Germany in World War II and chaired the Provisional Government of the French Republic from 1944 to 1946 in order to restore democracy in France. In 1958, he came out of retirement when appointed President of the Council of Ministers (Prime Minister) by President René Coty. He rewrote the Constitution of France and founded the Fifth Republic after approval by referendum. He was elected President of France later that year, a position to which he was reelected in 1965 and held until his resignation in 1969. Born in Lille, he graduated from Saint-Cyr in 1912. He was a decorated officer of the First World War, wounded several times and later taken prisoner at Verdun. During the interwar period, he advocated mobile armoured divisions. During the German invasion of May 1940, he led an armoured divisio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clark Hewitt Galloway
Colonel Clark Hewett Galloway (September 23, 1898 – January 1, 1961) was an American newspaper and magazine editor, Latin American affairs expert and colonel in the United States Army. Journalism career Galloway worked on newspapers in Fort Morgan and Fort Collins, Colorado, Chicago, Illinois, Omaha, Nebraska, and Cedar Rapids and Council Bluffs, Iowa. In Council Bluffs, Galloway was the managing editor of thCouncil Bluffs Nonpareil He joined the staff of the Washington bureau of the Associated Press in July 1938, and remained there until March 1941, when he was ordered to active military duty. Upon leaving active military service in November 1945, he joined the U.S. News Publishing Corp., where he served as editor of Latin American and Canadian news; first for ''United States News'', then for '' World Report'', and finally, for the combined magazine, '' U.S. News & World Report''. During his career, Galloway interviewed and wrote about some of the most influential figures in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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